Campfire Discussions

I like to crab about most gun writers. The reason is simple enough; they do a lousy job. Instead of "gun" writing, they do "me myself" writing. To test a mid-powered rifle, there is typically a deer hunting story and a picture...

I've been reading some reprinted books that were originally published years ago, in the 1930s and 1940s mostly, and have come across the term "open point" bullets in a couple of instances. Is this what we refer to today as "hollow point?"

I have what you might call a dilemma. I have the limit of being able to handle the recoil of a 30-06, but that's about it. Even then, due to an old sports injury and three subsequent surgeries, I have to think through a tendency to wince, which is just short of a flinch, to stay on target with...